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    "id": 1358452,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "would not be able to manage to keep quiet. I would have been strongly pushed to say something. I would have, therefore, run afoul of the rules of this House. Although the Speaker of the Senate might be lenient because he knows me, I was not very sure about the Speaker of the National Assembly whether he would extend some of the courtesies that you have extended us in this House. I suspected that if I went for that speech, I probably would be serving an expulsion from the House for a minimum of six months. I will go into the reasons why I did not trust the Head of State to paint the true picture of the state of the nation. In my mind, the state of the nation is the state of the people. Sen. Mungatana has spoken very eloquently here about the state of the creditors of this country. The creditors who gave us money during Eurobond are happy they will be receiving their payment. He should be asking himself, how many Kenyans are still able to service their own debts? That is a state of the nation that I would want to address. So, what I did I joined a group of friends and you will indulge me here in playing a drinking game. The rules of the game are very simple. Every single time you thought that a statement that the President had made was untrue or even partially untrue, you had to take a shot of whiskey. Needless to say by the end of the President’s speech, we were extremely inebriated because of the half-truths and open lies that we believed the President told before Parliament. I will get into the specifics. My expectation has always been that during a State of the nation address because the Constitution requires it---"
}